Cash Flow Forecasting

This Assn of Public Treasurers' course guides participants through the process of predicting cash flow for the purpose of managing their liquidity needs and for investment control. This 90 minute course may be combined with another banking or investment topic to fit programs up to four hours. The Guide, training and certificate of completion are offered to groups over 50 people for $45 per person plus trainer's hotel, transportation and meals.

Cash Handling

This four-hour Assn of Public Treasurers' course is designed to train public treasurers, clerks, and cash handlers proper cash handling techniques as well as procedures used when accepting payment by debit and credit cards. Included with the course is APT’s 2nd Edition Cash Handling Training Manual. The Manual, certificate of completion and training are offered to groups over 50 people for $50 per person plus the trainer's flight, hotel, transportation and meals.

Creating an Investment Plan/INVPlan

This in-depth course provides participants with the essential theory and hands-on computer lab needed to build an investment plan for their government. The course consists of two components:

1. An in-depth discussion of the important role participant’s play as stewards of public funds; addressing important challenges facing public funds today – how to insure investment practice follows policy and performance measurement.
2. Each student participates in a hands-on computer lab. Combining state of the art technology with a case study and investment planning software students go step by step through the why and “how-to” of creating an investment plan.

Main Street Money Managers seeking an in-depth course on the fundamentals of how to professionally manage a public fund portfolio will find Creating an INVPlan an invaluable resource. Creating an INVPlan is a prerequisite for enrollment in Creating My INVPlan, a webcast course to apply theory and case study to create an investment plan tailored to your government.

Participants receive six hours of instruction; a copy of the instructor’s book, The Politics of Public Fund Investing; Creating an INVPlan workbook; suite of investment plan software; and a certificate of completion. Course size: maximum 20 people.

Debt Policy Development

This Assn of Public Treasurers' course varies in length depending on the community or organization's interests and agenda. Participants will find this program very useful in building their own comprehensive capital financing policy. The Handbook used for the workshop serves as a useful "road map" for the development and implementaticoncerns of each jurisdiction.

The Handbook, training and certificate of completion are offered to groups over 50 people for $50 per person plus trainer's hotel, transportation and meals. on of policy guidelines that address the unique needs and concerns of each jurisdiction. The Handbook, training and certificate of completion are offered to groups over 50 people for $50 per person plus trainer's hotel, transportation and meals.

Disaster Preparedness

This 90 minute Assn of Public Treasurers' presentation will walk you through the steps necessary to minimize the impact a potential disaster could have on your finance or treasury department. You can not predict when a disaster, man made or natural, could occur, but there are strategies, training and techniques that you can implement to protect the public's assets and your office operations. Among the topics covered are: five steps to disaster minimization; plan for a disaster with your own policy; testing your procedures; adequate insurance coverage and risk management techniques; and reciprocal agreements for operating off site. The Manual, training and certificate of completion are offered to groups over 50 people for $50 per person plus trainer's hotel, transportation and meals.

Evaluating Investment Performance
What Every Public Fund Should Know About Benchmarking

This introductory level workshop on understanding benchmarks from a public fund perspective is for those exploring benchmarks to measure investment performance. The workshop covers the fundamentals of a benchmark. The workshop covers how these fundamentals can be applied to a public fund seeking to use a benchmark for evaluating and measuring their portfolio’s performance.

Participants receive three to four hours of instruction; a copy instructor’s book, The Politics of Public Fund Investing; certificate of completion and written agenda needed for CPE credits. Minimum number: 50 people. No maximum number.

Fraud Detection and Deterrence

This four-hour Association of Public Treasurers' fraud detection and prevention workshop offers treasurers and finance directors a comprehensive fraud prevention program. As a public finance professional, you are expected to safeguard the public's money while its under your control. Unfortunately, embezzlement of public funds is all too common place. This workshop covers such topics as: Cash Receipting and Disbursing; Fraud Schemes; Detection Steps; Training Examples; Internal Control Weaknesses; and the Forty Most Common Forms of Fraud. The Handbook, training and certificate of completion are offered to groups over 50 people for $50 per person plus trainer's hotel, transportation and meals.

Identity Theft

MSNBC reporter and author of “Your Evil Twin: Behind the Identity Theft Epidemic” and television reporter, Bob Sullivan, shares his experiences and footage to shed light on this critically serious theft that may affect you personally as well as those who maintain personal data for their community. The book and presentation are offered to groups over 75 people for $50 per person plus the trainer’s hotel, transportation and meals.

Leadership and Team Building

This workshop developed and taught by Mark McRae, combines his experience as a treasurer, manager and horse owner to demonstrate how team work, leadership and staying focused on clearly defined goals can become second nature. “Horse sense is the thing that a horse has which keeps it from betting on people” WC Fields. This special program focuses on trust-based leadership when building your team. Prices and minimums are available upon request.

Media Training

This workshop, developed and taught by the "Media Training 101" Author, Sally Stewart, ranges from two hours to a full day program. The course is taught throughout North America and comes with, Media Training 101. Prices and minimums are available upon request.

Notary Training

This 90 minute course is perfectly suited to treasurers and clerks. The encyclopedia, certificate of completion and training are offered to groups over 50 for $55 per person plus the trainer's flight, hotel, transportation and meals.

Portfolio Management Par Excel - lence
Unlocking Excel's Power for Public Funds

Portfolio Management Par Excel-lence offers simple and practical tips for unlocking the power of Excel to produce state of the art investment reports and analyze a public fund portfolio.

Whether your government has an accounting system in place or not; this workshop will be of tremendous value.

Portfolio Management Par Excel-lence presents nifty tips and tricks to import and find fixed income information useful for customizing investment reports as well as analyzing their fixed income portfolios.

Sample of functions covered in class include: calculating market price;duration;purchase yields;book yield; book value; and weighted averages etc.

Revenue Collections

This 90-minute to 3 hour Assn of Public Treasurers' course for treasury and finance professionals offers practical and successful methods for increasing your revenues without cutting services or raising taxes. The seminar offers participants: an overview of the collection process; information as to how to develop a successful collection program; tips on how to make successful telephone calls; the 7 axioms of successful collections and much more. Participants will receive a copy of the Assn of Public Treasurers’ Revenue Collections Manual, training and a certificate of completion at the end of the seminar. This program is offered to groups over 50 for $45 per person plus trainer's hotel, transportation and meals.